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The two mountain-guides Erhard Loretan, left, and Andre Georges, right, pose on a glacier in the Bernese Oberland on February 27, 1986, after announcing their intention to climb on top of 37 peaks in the Swiss Alps within 25 days. The Transalpine Marathon starts from Graechen in the Canton Wallis. More than 28 peaks are above 4'000 meters, among them such fames mountaines as the Matterhorn, the Monte Rosa and the Dent-Blanche. (KEYSTONE/Str)